POLS 1301- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 65 pages long!)
1 Dec 2017
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Scientific theories mustube falsifiable: theories must be testable, true claims cannot be falsified, but they are falsifiable. Why did city-leages and city-states disappear to be replaced by sovereignties: the kings" interested coincided with mercantilism, constituency relationships developed, territorial borders enabled limits of authority. Reasons the hansa failed: free-riding and defection, erosion of hanseatic trade hegemony, mutual distrust amongst towns, hanseatic kings did not benefit from the welfare of the realm, less capable of waging war due to lack of unity. Mutual empowerment: game theory: institutions originate where repetitive behaviors occur between two actors, the benefits of sovereignty led to its popularity, towns defected from the league, strength through external territorial definition and internal hierarchy. Thucydides: the first social scientist, goal: to create a possession of all time and account exact knowledge of the past in an unromanticized way. Timeline: earlier in the 5th century bce: war breaks out between persia and greece rise of the.
